Kov's face looked

Agreed, I thought he looked by that jab in the first , just before the first knockdown. Then came on here , and seem like
Most think it was just a balance issue?

 

so what kovalev got hurt once, LHWs get hurt, and it asnt just a jab, he was hit several times. Hes coming back, thats all. He krushed again. His comeback opponent was not a total weakling.

Krusha is back.

 

just watched five minutes of charr ustinov. jeez who gave charr a licence to box, struggling with a bald middeaged bastiche

 

If kovalev cant solve a fight with a huge single right hand, he can't solve it at all.

Very limited fighter.

 

Insightful comment, time to run back to cuck hook boxing.

 

Did you see his boxing plan?

right hand
right hand
right hand
right hand

Any good fighter would destroy anyone with this "elaborated" gameplan. No wonder why he cant win to ward. You can run back to whereever you want, we are in a free internet.

 

I wonder if has fixed his gas tank?

 

he drives a 96 Mercedes, I doubt the tank is an issue even yet.


[url]https://www.si.com/boxing/2017/11/21/sergey-kovalev-vyacheslav-shabranskyy-light-heavyweights[/url]

 

You been on the sauce while posting again, Blizz ?

 

that make 3 exiting champs in that divison, well 4 with chickenson. I wonder if Bivol or Beterbiev will fight him first.

 

come on beterbiev would crush him

 

I think that a mentally defeated Kovalev could have taken a knee in the center of the ring 30 seconds before the stoppage, after the pair of spiteful left hooks to the ribs that left him grimacing in pain (possibly the nastiest bodyshots in the entire assault), but his response was to throw hands. His attempts to dig deep and hang in there are why I don't see that he checked out. He was being driven to the deck by an accumulation of solid blows to a wounded area of his body at the moment Weeks stepped in.

It's a fine line (or an ATG opponent) between this
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and this.
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Saying that, even though I don't believe he'd already quit on himself before that stoppage, I take your point that a repeat of circumstances in which a fighter had previously tasted bitter defeat could cause him to check out or, ahem, excuse himself from the action (ie. say 'no mas') in a future bout.

Assuming for arguments' sake that Kovalev is that guy, I still believe it'd take a LHW with a hell of a compound of tangible and intangible qualities to recreate those kinds of circumstances. I look at it relatively, I guess. He was in there with the most mentally gritty guy in the sport at the time, fighting on even terms for nearly an hour in total (in itself, a testament to his patience and cool and mental steel). In those scenarios something often has to give. Ward found a way to get Kovalev into a world of hurt from which he couldn't escape. I feel the outcome of their rivalry wasn't so much about one fighter's mental weakness as whose mental strength was most immense. Sergey is evidently very tough mentally, but Ward is just a bit tougher.